RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

TURKEY WANTS RUSSIA’S black sea fleet Received 8.50 a.m. AMSTERDAM, July 8. Turkish newspapers demand that the Russian Black Sea fleet be handed over to Turkey assassinated ambassador A GOOD THING FOR RUSSIA. KERENSKY HAS HOPES OF A RENAISSANCE. Received 8.50 a.m PARIS, July 8 Kerensky, referring to the assassi- i nation of Count Mirbach, the German Ambassador, at Moscow, while he deplored the taking of human life, was glad Mirbach had been killed. His death was a %ood thing for Russia, and may mark the beginning of her renaissance, and the initiation of a Government at Moscow against Germany. The Germans were certain now to occupy Moscow. Mirbach was the real ruler of Russia, and got on very well with Lenin and Trolsky. U.S.A. ECONOMIC MISSION TO RUSSIA. Received 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON. July 8.

It is authoritatively stated that the United States sends to Russia an economic mission, supported by a powerful force of inter-allied troops to establish order. l - SERBIA ABSOLUTELY STARVING. Received 8.50 a.m. COPENHAGEN, July 8> The Serbian Minister has received reports stating that the situation in Serbia is desperate. The AustroGermans have removed all the food, and the population is starving to death. SENSATIONAL REPORTS FROM' r,i RUSSIA. GERMAN TROOPS WITHDRAWING. REINFORCEMENTS DEMANDED, - . PEASANT ARMY NUMBERS 200,000 COMMUNICATIONS WITH ODESSA cut. Received 9.30 a.m. LONDON, July 8. Washington newspapers give prominence this week to reports of a sensational series of events in Russia. It is believed a great crisis is rapidly approaching. Petrograd reports indicate in Ukraine the revolt is growing. The bourgeoisie are alarmed because the Germans are withdrawing and refusing to give battle. Only thirty thousand troops are available in the Kieff region, and ’’they are urgently demanding reinforcements. It is stated the total peasant troops number

200,000, whereof 75,0T50 are well equipped and efficiently officered. They are advancing from Faslov railway junction to Kieff, forty miles northeast. Communications between Kieff and Odessa are cut. The Ukranian Government has ordered the restitution of lands to the former owners, promising a complete scheme of Agrarian reforms. SUCCESS OF CZECHOSLOVAK MOVEMENT. A NEW GENERAL EMERGES. Received 10.50 a.m. ' NEW YORK:, July 8. The Tckio correspondent of the Daily Express reports that despite the Yladivostock Soviets’ elaborate measures to resist the Czecho-Slovaks, the latter, under the young Russian, General Diteric, formerly General Duknovitch’s Chief of Staff, easily dispossessed the Bolsheviks of a,rink and ammunition.

The Czecho-Slovaks in the Far East are cut off from their comrades in Western Siberia, but developments suggest that they will jointly control the Trans-Siberian railway. The Czecho-Slovak movement is entirely spontaneous, and may prove the rallying point for the Siberian party of order, and may lead to a natural and satisfactory solution of the problem. RELATIONS BROKEN OFF WITH GERMANY. RUSSIA JOINS THE ENTENTE. Received 8.50 a.m COPENHAGEN, July 8

The “Tidenstegon” states that the whole of German relations have been broken off with Russia, which bus joined the Entente. Provisions have arrived at Murman from America.

CZECHS AT VLADISTOOK. LONDON, July 7. A message from Vladivostock states that the commandant of the Czechoslovaks disarmed the Bolsheviks and restored the former administration. FIRST STROKE OF VENGEANCE. AGAINST GERMAN TYRANNY PARIS, July 7. The newspapers regard the assassination of Count von Mirbach (German Ambassador of Moscow) as the first stroke of vengeance of oppressed Russia against Germany tyranny and a severe blow to the Germair plans. I The Moscow paper '‘lzuestia,’ ? ’official Bolshevik organ, says that the Allies will be oppressed by military forces if they intervene in Russia. HOW MI REACH MET HIS DEATH. AT HANDS OP TWO ASSASSINS. GRAVE DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED. Received 10.50 a.m. MOSCOW, July 8.

Two unknown men requested an Interview with Count Mirbach on the pretext of presenting a petition. They entered the Ambassador’s room, and a German officer was in attendance. One

stranger fired two revolver shots, hitting Mirbach on the head; the other threw three bombs, inflicting fatal injuries. The murderers escaped through a window. Reigler and the officer were uninjured. The murder caused a tremendous sensation in political and military circles, and grave •'.’developments are expected. Volodarsky, a Bolshevik Government’s Press Commissioner, was killed by a revolver shot at Moscow. The murderer escaped. LENIN EXPRESSES REGRET. . - - 5 • . STEPS TAKEN TO' APPREHEND ' -THE MURDERERS. Received 10.50 a.m. LONDON, July 8. A Russian wireless message states that Lenin, in informing Ambassador J o ff in Berlin of the murder of Count Mirbach. orders him to immediately visit Kuhlmann and express indignation. Lenin, Sverloefer, Tchitcherln, and Karohan, on receipt of the news, assured the chief German mission that extraordinary : 'measures w r ere being taken for the discoverey of the murderers.

The whole quarter in which the Embassy is situated was surrounded immediately. Severe control was established on arrivals and departures from the town. An extraordinary plenipotentiary will he despatched to Berlin to express indignation.

THE. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

INDIA’S GREAT HOXJK

LONDON, July 7,

The Indian Commission's report says: The time has now come when India’s sheltered existence cannot be prolonged without damaging her national life. Nationhood within the Empire will be something better than India has yet attained. The great task is to call forth her capacity, selfreliance and nationhood instead of her caste feeling. The committee has worked out a scheme with the object, as far as possible, of giving complete popular control to local bodies, with the largest possible independence, and securing progressive realisation of responsible government in the provinces, some measure whereof should be granted to the provinces forthwith, with a view to granting complete re-

spohsibility at the earliest possible moment. The central government must remain responsible to the British Parliament, but, with that exception, its authority must remain indisputable pending experience in the proposed changes in the provincial Institutions. The committee emphatically reject the argument that local self-govrnment must wait until other reforms create a suitable atmosphere. They assert that Indian hopes and aspirations have been aroused to such a pitch that they cannot be appeased by a mere grant of control over urban and rural boards. Moreover, the development of the country has reached a stage at which a wider application of self-government would be justified. Government without the people’s cooperation is increasingly difficult. The franchise and composition of the provincial are not detailed, but the retention of communal electorates is recommended for Mohammedans, where they are in a minority. A similar thing is recommended in regard to Sikhs.